Word: indexers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Critical Index. The main testing was done among 13-year-olds, since this is the age at which the twelve nations still have most of their children in academic schools (after this age, some channel many of their students into vocational training). The results show a startling gap between Japan and the U.S. Japan placed 76% of its 13-year-olds in the upper half of international testing, compared with 43% in the U.S. A strong 31% of the Japanese ranked in the upper tenth percentile, compared with only 4% of the Americans. The top tenth, claim the researchers...
...record 27 minutes. In the first hour's speculative fervor, the bellwether Dow-Jones industrial average jumped 13.70 points as buyers bid up the price of airlines, railroads, machine-tool and other equipment makers. But the rally wilted as quickly as it grew, and the industrial index retreated to 848.50 -up a mere 1.90 points for the week...
...Metuchen, N.J., color TV plant, 600 employees have been laid off since December; the company's Columbus, Ohio, appliance plant has cut back from three shifts to one. The Federal Reserve Board reported last week that the nationwide sag in retail sales persisted in January, while its index of overall industrial production fell by a full point to 157.9% of its 1957-59 average. Factory orders for durable goods dropped by a worrisome 5.1%, to the lowest level in 15 months, as the downturn spread to transportation equipment, primary metals and even machinery. "The economy," said Treasury Secretary Henry...
True Community. Under Eisenhower, Johns Hopkins has again caught up with its reputation for excellence. One index is its enrollment of 850 postdoctoral students-the largest, for its size, of any U.S. university. It is also a collegiate democracy: the twelve-man Academic Council, elected by the faculty, has a free hand in setting academic policy. "There is no institution in the country where freedom is more prized," proudly declared Eisenhower. "This is a true community of scholars...
...giving between husband and wife, that is virtually an index of the success of a marriage. Only in the closest of unions would a husband succeed in buying the right kind of antique Wedgwood vase; and if he knows the correct size for a half-slip, he almost knows too much. On the other hand, it takes more than love-profound intuition and knowledge of character-for a wife to choose the right necktie for her husband. In marital giving, moveover, there is a subtle language: the pingpong table as a gentle hint to the husband who does not spend...